Student Winners and Their Teachers Receive a Trip to Washington, D.C.

For the fifth consecutive year, Time Warner Cable and C-SPAN, the nation's public affairs network, are challenging high school students to think about THE COMMON GOOD by answering an essential question being debated by elected officials and in communities across the country: How does the campaign and election process contribute to the Common Good?

The contest builds on Time Warner Cable's long-standing commitment to education. For more than a decade the company has provided free cable connections, commercial-free educational programming, and teacher training in new technology to K-12, public and private schools in its service areas.

The contest supports the national Social Studies curriculum and requires the use of at least one C-SPAN resource from any program on C-SPAN, C-SPAN2 or the website at www.c-span.org.

Up to ten student winners and their teachers will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. for a weeklong study visit conducted by the Close Up Foundation, the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan, civic education organization. In addition to a "behind the scenes" day at C-SPAN, they will participate in daily educational seminars, Capitol Hill visits with their representatives and staffers, planned sightseeing, a night at the theatre and excursions to historic sights in the area.

C-SPAN was created in 1979 by the cable television industry and began by providing live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Now C-SPAN, C-SPAN2 and its online presence offer diverse public affairs programming 24 hours a day.

View the list of Common Good winners from 2004.